Create a Hyperlink In a Word 2007 Flow Chart & Hide Annoying ScreenTips

Earlier last year we looked at Creating a Flow Chart in Word 2007.  Since then I have received a few questions regarding how to make links in Word 2007 Flow Charts, so let’s go back and take a look!

The simple answer to the question is yes.  We can make hyperlinks pretty much anywhere in a Word document.  Just highlight the text on the document you want to create a hyperlink for, Right Click and scroll down to Hyperlink.

 

This will open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box where you will notice the highlighted text above.  Make sure Existing File or Web Page is selected and type in the web address you want to link to and press OK.  Here you can also browse to a network drive, a file or folder on SharePoint maybe.

 

Now you can access the link in the flow chart by using the Ctrl+Click combination.

 

Above you will notice the white pop up screen telling us we need to hit Ctrl+Click to go to the link.  These are ScreenTips which can be helpful in navigating documents but sometimes they annoyingly get in the way.  Turn them off by clicking the Office Button \ Word Options \ Popular.  Now choose the ScreenTip style you want and click OK.    

You can experiment with the three different options which basically break down to advanced, some, or none at all.

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This article was originally written on 02/10/09 Tagged with: Word, Office, Windows

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Comments (4)

1. February 18, 2009 10:12 am
   W C Bennett

   Is there an easy way to create a mailing list for Avery mailing labels in Word using an Excel file/data sheet

2. February 19, 2009 5:12 pm
   Niyole

   Hi Supporters,
   I got laptop with Windows Vista.
   I notes one problem with Microsoft Office Word.
   I had copied some important info from Web in the Word. Next day when I open the File, there were my pictures (from Foto Galery) instead.Where my real copy?
   I copied that file I mean same file from yesterday from Windows Vista to the Memory Stick and put it in to my PC with Windows XP and my Info from Web appears nicely. It was so huge relieve.
   Thank you for your Web.
   Niyole

3. February 28, 2009 1:04 pm
   Catherine

   I get how you can create hyperlinks from text to web addresses or folders, but how do you easily create hyperlinks from text to something else inside the same document? For example, if my text says (See Table 1), how can I create a hyperlink to that Table caption? I can see that the other table of contents headings are available for linking, why not tables and figures as well?

   Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

4. April 3, 2009 4:50 am
   Lionel

   I have a word doc with lots of hyperlink, I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to automatically apply a hyperlink character style to all hyperlinks *without* manually selecting the text and applying the style. It seems like there should be a menu option in the hyperlinks panel for that kind of thing. Ideas?

   Thanks.